Pelosi -not allowing vote on drilling

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Mon, 07-21-2008 - 10:08am

Blunt blasts Pelosi for not allowing drilling vote


House Minority Whip Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) on Sunday strongly criticized Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) for not allowing a vote on a measure that would allow offshore drilling.


While acknowledging that Pelosi can prevent such a vote, Blunt said the Democratic leader would have to live with that decision, which he argued “does not make sense to the American people.”









“When we’re talking about offshore, we’re talking about 50, 100, 200 miles offshore,” Blunt said on CNN’s “Late Edition.” “Nobody's going to see that. This is an environmentally safe thing to do.”



Earlier in the program, Pelosi had stated in a pre-taped interview that she would not allow such a vote.


“We’re going to exhaust our other remedies in terms of increasing supply in America,” Pelosi said. When pressed on the issue, she added that she has “no plans” to allow such a vote.


Instead, she accused congressional Republicans of having blocked the Democrats’ initiatives to address the country’senergy problems and again called for opening the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to ease the cost at the pump.


“I think what you’ve got to realize here is by saying we should do that, you’re really admitting that supply makes a difference,” Blunt said. “That means we should be going after real supply, not what we’ve been able to hoard away.”


http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/blunt-blasts-pelosi-for-not-allowing-drilling-vote-2008-07-20.html

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Registered: 05-29-2003
Tue, 07-22-2008 - 5:58pm
I don't really understand why they can't go ahead and vote.. seems to be what the American people want as a majority doesn't it?
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Tue, 07-22-2008 - 7:37pm

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I honestly don't know what the majority of the American people want.(I don't want

 


 


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Registered: 08-18-2005
Tue, 07-22-2008 - 10:08pm

Looks like alot of Americans support off shore

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Registered: 06-23-2008
Tue, 07-22-2008 - 11:20pm
I don't ! I feel like it's just America's way of avoiding responsibility for it's over use of resources. We start drilling people forget the danger we have put ourselves into and the cycle starts all over again. I feel like it is a total case of entitlement on our part. We can all do more to reduce our trips after all we are one of the (if not thee) fattest nations in the world. We can bike, walk, or run to a lot of places if we live closely.
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Registered: 09-29-2003
Wed, 07-23-2008 - 12:29am

Read this by Dianne Feinstein today, I thought it made sense:


Dianne Feinstein: The false promise of offshore drilling

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Registered: 05-29-2003
Wed, 07-23-2008 - 8:56am
I don't ! I feel like it's just America's way of avoiding responsibility for it's over use of resources. We start drilling people forget the danger we have put ourselves into and the cycle starts all over again. I feel like it is a total case of entitlement on our part. We can all do more to reduce our trips after all we are one of the (if not thee) fattest nations in the world. We can bike, walk, or run to a lot of places if we live closely.



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Wed, 07-23-2008 - 9:11am
I must disagree with you that it will promote avoiding responsibility.
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Wed, 07-23-2008 - 9:18am


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Wed, 07-23-2008 - 9:27am

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Wed, 07-23-2008 - 10:38am

 

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